St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-28
STUCK IN A MUD HOLE.
The G. A. R. Visitors to st.
Louis Already Nearly
Drowned Out.
Last Night Hundreds, Includ-
ing Many Women, We're
Without Shelter.
A Large Sized Row Already
Started Among the Would
Be Bosses.
Anderson, of Ohio, Says Tut
tie is Nothing But a
BlathepSkite.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27.-Rain has been
falling almost without intermission
throughout the day and tonight the
dOwnpOur is akin to deluge and the
streets are turned into miniature rivers.
1t is the first wet spell that st. Louis
has experienced since early spring. AS
result the prevailing condition is one
of general decentralization. Fully 1OO,-
600 strangers are in the city and they
have packed themselves like behring's
into the Hobbies of the hotels, the foyers
OF the theaters, cigar stores and saloons,
especially the latter. Thousands of
them have been glad to secure nights
shelter miles away from the center
of the city, and thousands more, with
many women among them, have not a
place to lay their heads. The hundreds
of tents that had been pitched in the
suburban parks have been rendered I'M
inhabitable, and the twenty or more
thousand veterans who had been as
signed to camping quarters have quilted
them in disgust and secured accOmmO-
dations, which, otherwise, could have
been made available for the general
public. AT late hour the outlook was
that the rain would continue through
out the night, and
THE PROBABILITIES ARE
that the parade will be entirely aban-
dOned. Numerous caucuseS in relation
to encampment matters have been
held by the department delegations dur
ing the afternoon and evening, and sew
eral more are slated for tomorrow.
The New Jersey delegation has declared
itself solid for Gen. Slocum as COM
mander-in-chief, and the friends of the
latter are claiming acceSSionS from
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Massachu-
the evening, however, is the feet
that Gov. Foraker is the candidate of
the Fairchild-Tuttle wing of the party
for the high position. Ignorance of this
fact is claimed by the members of the
Ohio delegation, but it is fact that a
number of Eastern and Western dele
gates have been approached and their
support of the Ohio governor solicited.
FOraker's absence from the encamp-
ment had been considerably commented
upon during yesterday and this morn
ing, and there are many who putting
two and two together do not scruple to
express the opinion that his absence
and his candidacy are not entirely dis
connected. Every hour, moreover,
brings developments which indicate
more strongly than ever before that
POLITICAL COMPLEXION
will be given to the sessions of the
body. Gen. Tuttle's deliverance of last
night has evoked response from Gen.
Anderson, the Democratic candidate
| for governor of Ohio and a delegate to
the encampment. He sails into futile
without gloves, declares that he is as
| characteriZeS him as blatherSkite; de-
clares that he has made the Grand
Amy in Iowa so much of a political
machine that the Democrats there have
been compelled to form an
association composed exclusively eff
Democrats, and defends this move as
one not so much of secession as of self
defense. Talk of this character, pro
and con, became rather general as the
day wore on. There were indications,
moreover, that the proposition to here
after exclude the past department COM
manderS from seat, voice or vote in
the encampment, which will be sub
| mitted by the New York delegation and
| be opposed by their Massachusetts, COM
fadeS, will prove a thorn in the side of
the gathering.
CORPORAL TANNER,
| of Brooklyn, past commander of New
York, has publicly declared that he will
not obey the instructions of his depart
ment encampment in this connection.
This afternoon considerable of stir was
anonymous hand bill denouncing Tanner
in the strongest terms and characteriz-
| ing him as san arrogant and windy
| ShOuter." The encampment will open
| tomorrow afternoon, parade or no
parade. Tonight there was largely
attended reception at the Merchants
Exchange. Cows. Rusk, of Wisconsin;
Larabee, of Iowa; Alger, of Michigan,
and Oglesby, of Illinois, were among
the guests upon the platform. Mayor
Francis welcomed the visitors and Gen.
Fairchild responded. A promenade
concert closed the reception.
| A PETITION
is being generally signed asking con-
gress to pass bill for the relief of in
digent veterans. Such bill, it is said,
will be agreed upon by the encamp-
ment. On the flag issue there is but
one expression of opinion, and the sub
ject is passed over with the satisfied air
that the flags are still there. The third
national convention of the Women's
Relief corps meets at the same time as
of the G. A. r. Their convention
will be called to order at Harmonic
hall at 10 o'clock a. m. tomorrow.
President Mrs. Elizabeth DARN Kines'
report for the year just closed has been
| given out, and shows a large increase in
membership. In June, 1886, there were
S54 corps, with a membership of $1,000.
| In June, 1887, there were 1853 corps,
with 40, 29 members. The progress of
the organization has been slowest in
Maine and New Mexico. Ohio leads,
with 6,092 members, and Kansas follows
closely with $3.50 members, and Michi-
gan third with 3,700 members. During
the past year $50, LOG waso distributed in
| charity. This does not represent the
thousands of visits to the sick and desti-
tute, or the food and luxuries donated.
The secretary reports: General fund
| on hand, S37, 1855; relief fund ON hand,
$4,000. The Grand Army committee on
| pensions recommended that
THE LADIES PUSH THE BILL
for the penSioning of army nurses. At
7:30 O'Clock this evening the aids OH the
staff of COmmander-in-Chief LuciuS
Fairchild assembled at the generals
quarters at the Southern hotel with
| their friends and presented to him the
badge of past cOmmander-in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic. The
| gold eagle holds in its talons the rank
badge surrounded by fringe OF dia-
monds and in the field four large guns
are set in stars. The star hanging from
the ribbon is studded with many gems,
there being seventy-one diamonds in all.
| Comrade John HI. Cook, of Lafayette
Post No. lao, of New York city, MEM
Der OF the staff, made the presentation.
Gen. Fairchild was visibly affected, and